Display-card



A. JOSEPHSON. DISPLAY CARD.

, APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9, I921- Patented Nov. 1, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADALBERT JOSEPHSON, OF YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY-CARD.

Application filed June 9,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADALBERT JosnPHsoN, a citizen of the United States, residin at New York city, in the county of New Fork and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a display card particularly designed to attractively exhibit hair pins, and relates to the general type of such cards having tongues near one end to support the closed end of the pin, and tabs near the other end to retain the ends of the pin against thecard.

Many such cards are in use and in some cases the slits are so arranged that the pin is almost wholly concealed from view, while in others the removal of a pin from the card is impossible without mutilating the tongues or tabs; and otherwise defacing the card. These difiiculties are a source of considerable annoyance both to a purchaser who wishes to remove the article from the card and to the merchant who is left with a quantity of mutilated cards on his hands.

The principal objects of this invention are to provide a construction by which all of these difliculties may be substantially overcome, and mainly to provide a card capable of holding and exhibiting hair pins so that each pin is held separately and substantially away from its associate and to further aid in properly securing such pins in their respective positions by interengaging the pin and the card at two or more points throughout its length.

The invention is illustratively exemplified in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a display card showing several hair pins mounted therein.

Fig. 2 is a substantially vertical sectional view taken on the lines 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a slightly modified form of the display card; and

Fig. 4 is a section through same taken on lines 44 of Fig. 3.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing, 10 denotes a rectangular piece of cardboard or other suitable material, and having two parallel series of slits 11 and 12 formed therein. The uppermost series 11 is arranged adjacent and parallel to the upper edge of the card 10 and includes two V shaped slits 13, one above the other, to form a V shaped tongue 14 having the point of Specification of Letters Patent.

1921. Serial No. 476,161.

the V directed toward the opposite or bottom edge of the card 10. The lowermost series of slits 12 is adjacent and parallel to the bottom edge of the card 10 and includes two parallel U shaped slits 15 forming downwardly directed tongues 16. These tongues 16 are spaced slightly apart from one another to accommodate the prongs of the hair pins. A third slit 17 is provided directly aboveeach pair of tongues 16 and having short cuts at opposite ends thereof projecting upwardly and at right angles thereto to form a tongue 18 which is directed toward the two lower tongues 16. Each set of tongues 16 and 18 is arranged in the card 10 so that a line extending axially of the tongues 16 and midway between them, such as the sectlon lines 22 of Fig. 1, is substantially to the right of a similar line extending axially of the V shaped tongue 14 and from the point thereof.

In Figs. 3 and 4, the card 10 is identical with that shown in Figs. 1 and 2 with the V shaped tongues 14 arranged as before described, but instead of three there are two tongues. The lower tongues are longer than provided in Fig. 1, and are indicated at 16".

The hair pin generally indicated at A comprises the usual U shaped article having its closed end rounded as at a and provided with parallel prongs b. A pin of this character is usually made up of celluloid or other flexible material and is slightly bowed at its central portion to conform to the general contour of the head.

In the use of the card each hair pin is placed so that it spans the tongue 14. The

pin extends downwardly over the face of the card and each pair of legs or prongs b enters a slit 17 pressing the tongue 18 rearwardly, and protruding forwardly through the slits 15 respectively. The pin in this way is held to the card 10 at its opposite ends where the two members are practically interengaged, or in other words the pin is interengaged with the card at two distinct places. It will be noted that the flexible property of the card 10 enables it to conform substantially to the curve of the pin. The advantage of the slight offset of the group of slits in the lower series 12 with relation to the V shaped tongues 14 of the upper series 11 will be clearly understood when it is noted that only the left side or leg of the pin A is engaged by the V shaped tongue 14. This brings the axis of the pin slightly to the 7 right of the tongue and therefore the lower group of slits is arranged to the right of the axis of the V shaped tongue 14. In Figs. 2 and 3 the points of the pin merely enter single slots or slits 15 which form tongues 16 and with this design the points of the pin are concealed at the rear.

In either of these forms it is a simple matter to remove a pin from its place on the card and again replace it without causing the tongues to be damaged.

I claim 1'. A display card for hair pins having two parallel series of slits formed therein, the slitsof the uppermost of said series be-- ing substantially V shaped and arranged in pairs one above the other and each pair forming a V shaped tongue with the point of the V directed toward the opposite edge of said card and the lowermost of said se ries being groups of U shaped slits forming tongues, each of said groups being slightly offset from the corresponding V shaped tongue at the upperedge of said card.

2. A display card for hair pins having two parallel series of slits formed therein the slits of the uppermost of said series forming V shaped tongues alined with the upper edge of said card and having the points of the Vs directed toward the lower edge of said card, and the lowermost of said series of slits being U shaped to form tongues arranged in groups to correspond with the V shaped tongues, each of said groups of tongues being offset from the direction of the point of a corresponding V shaped tongue. 3. A display card for hairpins having two parallel series of slits formed therein, the uppermost series forming downwardly directed V shaped tongues adapted to engage over one side of the closed end of said hair pin and extend under the other side thereof, and the lowermost series includinggroups of three slits being substantially U shaped to form downwardly directed tongues, one of said slits being uppermost to receive both legs of said hair pin and the other two slits being under the first named slit and adapted to each receive one leg of said pin.

4. A display card for hair pins having a series of pairs of V shaped slits adj acent' one edge of said card,the point of said Vs being ADALBERT J OSEPHSON. 

